Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

My curmugeonly thoughts fall into three basic categories of sucks: time suck, content suck, privacy suck. At least the content-focused social networks, like del.icio.us, or flickr, or my personal favorite, our own Social Source Commons , there is some there there. They own my profile, and whatever time I spend adding content.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 18, 2007

June 18, 2007 OK, so I finally drank the Facebook coolaid – and although it took me a long time to get around to, I have now realized how many people in the nptech field have already been on facebook for a while. I’m still not convinced by any of these social network sites not directly linked to content (unlike del.icio.us

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Speaking too soon April 15, 2007 I’ve been doing a lot of thinking since I wrote my post, a few weeks ago , saying I was done with technology consulting. It just wasn’t happening very well.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

We’ve grouped these solutions into the following categories: Donor Management Fundraising Project Management Communication Design Forms Marketing Events Website Content Management System As you assess each option, keep in mind that seemingly “free” platforms may still come with costs. which will make it harder to organize and sync your data.

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Achieve

AUGUST 5, 2022

It’s best to consult a graphic designer that specifically knows how nonprofits function. Once you have a few options for graphics and you need to choose between them, it’s time to consult the masses once more! A logical place to start is where people spend. Fortunately, there are graphic designers who can lead the way.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

Taxonomies are developed by specific people for specific purposes, and as such, are limited by worldview and perspective. What is their worldview, and how does that effect the taxonomy that they come up with – and how does that determine the effect of a taxonomy on people who are not the experts?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

April 15, 2007 At NTC , there was a lot of talk about the “big three&# open source CMS packages that most people these days in our sector are using: Drupal , Plone , and Joomla. What are all those content types, and where do they appear, and how do you get things to look exactly like you want them? Um, sorta. 2 Suzi 04.17.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

Turns out, unlike Facebook, or Myspace and such, the “Spock Bot&# makes pages for people without their knowing. So people who were in my gmail address book, and in Spock, got a request for trust from me, not knowing where it came from. I then decided, why not – let’s find out who else is on Spock. Walk right under it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

August 7, 2007 I’ve been experimenting with the non-content centered social networking sites LinkedIn and Facebook for a while now. The content centered ones, like flickr, del.icio.us Facebook (and LinkedIn) are what people are calling “walled gardens&#. and our own Social Source Commons , are a different animal.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

It is not because you aren’t interested (although many of you might not be), but because Sage is one of those archaic academic publishers who had decided to lock down its authors and their content behind heavy iron walls. I am boycotting locked-down journals and I’d like to ask other academics to do the same.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

It looked quite like it might be a fun event to be at, but the hefty $3000 price tag for admission wasn’t something that I could possibly stomach, so I sat in front of my laptop, watching people describe new tools. So this is definitely a tool to watch. good2gether is an interesting concept. Watch the demo.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Chapter 3 is a discussion on Peer production – it talks about how it is that people have come together to collaboratively create software and content – basically, knowledge production. In the next chapter , he will talk about the economics of social production, and the motivations behind peer content creation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

apps out there, and beginning to try and use them to create content and organize my life, I have come to the following conclusion: the apps are great, but integration still sucks. And, I also don’t want to do too much cross-posting of content. First, there’s the blogging issue. Hint to NTEN : Affinity Group Planets!)

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

In other words, people are now relying on their friends to recommend them content more often than searching for it themselves. As part of Microsoft Outlook 2010, features allow people to connect with their Facebook and MySpace accounts (the service already allowed you to connect Outlook to LinkedIn).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

In many ways for me, the most important aspect of free and open source software is that it does just that – it levels the playing field so that people and organizations with few resources can have access to quality tools to do what it is they need and want to do in this software-driven world. would all be free (libre).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Sorry, Lobo, with all due respect to you and CiviCRM, a PHP API accessible only to other PHP apps on the same machine is simply not sufficient integration in an age of web services, where people run different apps on different machines and use languages other than PHP for building web apps. What’s involved in this? 13 Eoin 06.25.09

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

At this point, they are at number 80 on the leaderboard, not bad for an organization that had social media on its to do list for 2010. We basically pulled our entry together in three weeks – editing down an existing video to the required 90 seconds, drafting the content, selecting the photos, and submitting the entry.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Which, of course, is why many people and many organizations don’t need blogs. The originators of blogging probably thought of it mostly as a way for people to be able to easily update their websites quickly, and provide interesting content on a moving basis. It’s more about the ephemeral versus the enduring.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Kivi Leroux Miller is president of Nonprofit Marketing Guide.com and the award-winning author of two books, “The Nonprofit Marketing Guide: High-Impact, Low-Cost Ways to Build Support for Your Good Cause” and “Content Marketing for Nonprofits: A Communications Map for Engaging Your Community, Becoming a Favorite Cause, and Raising More Money.”

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NTEN

AUGUST 10, 2009

As part of our agenda planning process for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we hosted a community planning call this past Friday. Civic Actions on website content strategy and SEO. Some people know about what she's doing with iGoogle, but it would be great to see her present on that. Leadership.

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See3

SEPTEMBER 24, 2007

To all of these people, I say “Welcome!&# We founded See3 and DoGooderTV to be THE video people for nonprofits and so it is very nice indeed to see our colleagues starting to beat the same drum. The latest nonprofit consultant/professional talking about video was Tom Belford from The Agitator blog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

But what about sites people who do the same kinds of work that you do, or like the same kinds of things that you do? You could google for them, but wouldn’t it be great to see other people’s links – things they found organically? Does it really connect me to people? to Ma.gnolia. Sometimes, but not generally.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

So if you have to leave early or maybe you get interrupted, or you just want to review the content later on, maybe share it with a friend or a colleague you’ll be able to do that because I’m going to send you the recording also going to send out the slides. And this is one where these guys definitely have a lot of knowledge.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2012

Blueprint is the story of a group of people who tried to create a Dutch Museum of National History (INNL). a national competition in which 8,000 people submitted photographs to represent the iconic image of the Netherlands. How would you decide what to include, what tone to take, and how to present the material?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

For organizations, web stats are useful indicators of how many people are being reached by their message, the geographical spread of the visitors and whether or not a specific campaign was successful in driving traffic or creating actions (like donations, or letters, etc.) For one thing, feeding people is not what NTEN does.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

It feels like a real gift to myself (and hopefully, to you) to schedule all this content now and not have to worry about it when my baby is born. Every week for almost seven years, I''ve made sure to get new content up on the blog. It has been a catalyst for speaking and consulting gigs, and the laboratory for a book.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NTC Summary, and Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0 And it’s making me think a lot about what I’m going to start calling “Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0″

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

In my recent chapter “Managing Fundraising and Building Communities Online” in the book Internet Management for Nonprofits (Wiley, April 2010), I write in depth about one method to tackle the subject – what are organizations across the country doing? Red House@Your House offered an opportunity for young people to get involved.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Here’s a little background: Since 2009, Camber Collective— the result of Hope Consulting and SwitchPoint LLC’s merger—has led the Money for Good research series to seek “the voice of the donor” for charitable giving. Because we live in a world where people want to express their ideas, share opinions and participate in the conversation.

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See3

OCTOBER 18, 2007

The main difference between Causes and the Facebook application powered by Convio is that with Convio your application on Facebook will have all of your content delivered directly from your Convio database and CMS. Another thing mentioned in the session is that using conditional content is complicated. Causes is passive. Interactivity.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

But the point is that the MAH, like just about every other museum in the known universe, was content to define the museum experience as something removed from the outside world, a rarefied church-like space of refined artistic reflection. Lots of people now don't even know where the museum is. We painted a big map of the western U.S.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

People--especially young folks looking to break into the museum business--often ask me how I got here. I met lovely people in engineering, but I found the work to be too detail-oriented and microscopic in scope to satisfy me. We had only eight people doing everything related to content and programming at the museum.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

By Jeff Ramos, Community and Content Manager, Games for Change When most people outside gaming think of video games, they typically fall into three buckets: "old school" games like Super Mario and Tetris, social and mobile games like Farmville and Angry Birds, or hyper-violent console games like Grand Theft Auto.

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EveryAction

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Cabral, MA, CFRE is a fundraising coach, nonprofit strategist, and consultant. For more great resources, staffing to help you thank your donors, or even a coach to inspire more ideas, visit www.hireafundraiser.com or book a free 30-minute consultation. Erik Rubadeau, Yeeboo Digital. Say thank you for all the previous support.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2012

They take advantage of the information from a 2010 study by CMB Consumer Pulse that says 51% of Facebook fans and 67% of Twitter followers are more likely to buy their product SINCE becoming a fan/follower. Both have the same marketing goals: reach more people and raise more funds.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 26, 2023

It helps organizations like Save the Children understand who their supporters are, what issues they’re interested in, and what kinds of content they prefer to engage with. It shows nonprofit fundraisers what content their donors are interacting with, their activities, and where they are giving.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 29, 2008

Most people (67%) want an easy to use interface. Most people (57%) also want ongoing support. The other questions, that are really more geared toward particular vendors, for FOSS CMS are not really applicable to the CMS itself, but to the consultants or vendors who implement it – which is bound to be variable.

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